DSST Public Schools, formerly known as the Denver School of Science and Technology, is a public charter STEM network comprising twelve schools on seven campuses in Denver, Colorado, United States, in partnership with Denver Public Schools. DSST is among the top 200 public high schools in the US.OverviewMetropolitan area students are selected for admission entirely by a lottery. As students follow a science, mathematics, and technology focused liberal arts education, more than half of graduates declare a STEM major in college. Students of color comprise 80 percent of the student body and 68 percent qualify for free or reduced lunch. All DSST students follow a prospectus that includes seven years of natural sciences, seven years of mathematics, three years of Spanish, a trimester internship, and a two-trimester senior project. By 2024-25, DSST is slated to consist of twenty-two schools on eleven campuses, with eighteen schools focused on STEM and four focused on the humanities, enrolling 10,500 students, or a quarter of Denver’s secondary school population.HistoryDSST was founded in 2004 at Park Hill in northeast Denver by David Ethan Greenberg, who also served as the first board chair of its successor organization, DSST Public Schools. Bill Kurtz, a former investment banker at JP Morgan, is founding principal.
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